DECOURCY points found: 27

DECOURCY Family History

Recorded in several forms including de Courcy, de Courcey, Decourcy, Coursey, and possibly others, this is an Anglo-Irish surname of French origins. Probably introduced into England at or immediately after, the Norman Invasion of 1066, and into Ireland after the Invasion by King Henry 11nd in 1170, the name originates from the village of Courcy in the departement of Calvados, in Normandy. First recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086 with that of Richard de Curci of Oxford, and later in Lincoln in 1150, when Thomas de Curci appears in the Dane Law registers for that county, this is one of the rare names which has legitimately kept its 'de' preposition throughout the ages.